ARTIST'S BLOCK, SCOTT CAMPBELL & CHRISTINE HOEPPNER

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Artist’s Block focuses on photography and mixed media through a collaboration between photographer Scott Campbell and artist Christine Hoeppner. Artist’s Block presents four series of work titled Room, Artist’s Block, Black and White and Mask. 

 The first in this exhibition series is titled Room. Room was born from a photograph made by Scott for the 2018 exhibit Inferno, a fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation in the theme of “I Dress Red for Women” campaign. In the Inferno exhibition each image showed a woman, wearing a red dress, portrayed in the context of her power. Scott wanted to portray Christine, an artist, as a subject within her work. Christine spontaneously drew a whimsical image on large format paper, and Scott then photographed her lying on the paper in an artistically cut red and black dress, while posing in a context that worked with the image that she had drawn. The idea of having Christine as a subject within her artwork inspired Scott to develop Room into a series. The series is a collection of 10 photographs, exploring the idea of an artist breaking free of the confines of a space, an allegory for the confines that artists often impose upon their own creativity. Within each photograph there is a progression from Artist Proof to the Finale, as Room disintegrates the artist breaks free. 

Created immediately after Room, Scott worked on Artist’s Block which is a short sequence that is less an allegory for artist’s block in general and more an expression of Christine’s own frustration with artist’s block. 

In addition to Room and Artist Block the exhibition presents Black and White and Mask. Scott has long been fascinated with the film noir style and his series Black and White uses that style to explore the typical creative progression from consternation, to idea, to creation. Christine, a wonderfully creative person, is also very private. Scott wanted to explore the idea of having Christine pose in public (we created all the previous work in the studio) with her art while maintaining her privacy. The result of this exploration was the Mask series where Christine drew on plain white masks and Scott photographed Christine wearing her art at various locations around Calgary. To finalise this collaboration, Scott printed his photographs and Christine drew on them to make the work feel like a canvas.

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EXHIBITION RELATED EVENT: ARTIST'S BLOCK VIRTUAL RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK

This exhibition is also on show at cSPACE. For more information see HERE